Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion. The “mini prion” folds and stacks ...

Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions can sometimes feature damaging clumps of tau proteins that have become deformed. Scientists have now synthesized these misshapen entities in ...

A study from Bochum describes a mammal-specific domain of the prion protein and offers new approaches for research into neurodegenerative diseases. Prion diseases are progressive and invariably fatal ...

A study from Bochum describes a mammal-specific domain of the prion protein and offers new approaches for research into neurodegenerative diseases. At first, they cause memory deficits and ...

Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and National Institutes of Health open door to new level of detail in study of abnormal proteins that ...

Prions, mysterious shape-shifting proteins, can lead to brain disorders such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, "mad cow disease" in cattle, yet they can also ...

New research from David Westaway, director of the Center for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases at the University of Alberta, and Jiri Safar, co-director of the National Prion Disease Pathology ...

Glioblastoma (GBM), one of the most aggressive types of brain cancer, is one of the greatest challenges for medicine, both because it is difficult to treat and because of its high mortality rate. In ...

Yeast prions are increasingly recognised as pivotal agents in non-Mendelian inheritance, whereby protein conformations rather than nucleic acids dictate heritable traits. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae ...

In the field of COVID-19 research, attention has turned to a critical aspect: the prion region on the surface spike proteins of the virus and its implications, especially in the context of mRNA ...

The brain of a rat in which a fluorescent protein has been used to highlight transplanted human brain cells - Copyright Stanford University/AFP Sergiu PASCA The brain ...